ghostBones @ ghostBones @lemmy.world

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Following that logic, it means she doesn't know any ethical people.

13 years. Found Reddit from visiting Popurls after ditching Digg, after leaving Catch.

Apple has blind loyalty

I agree. However, I also think that vendor lock-in is the true culprit. The strange thing about Apple users is that they get locked into that platform and there is little escape, but instead of feeling resentful, they swell with pride instead. Apple user = proud capative.

The Ping of the North

He has a legal defense public action committee, but there was recent allegations that money was siphoned from his campaign to restore the PAC's coffers. Evidently it was depleted to less than 20% of what it was a year before, indicating motive for the campaign funding crime allegation. Since the PAC is public, so is there accounting ledgers.

According to the producer(s) of The Apprentice, when Trump makes a particular face, that looks like a really wide stupid grin ... It means he just pooped his bum bum and he needs to be cleaned up and re-diapered. They also revealed that his incontinence was a result of medication abuse. There were pictures of him with an imported variety of a familiar OTC med that filled a nearby open drawer. It also explained how he is up at late hours of the night, tweet storming.

I wanted a consistent launcher across different devices over time. I eventually settled on Nova Launcher, paid for it, and really liked it. I have been using it for about a decade. I just abandoned it a few hours ago because I finally determined why my tablet was grinding and halting. Nova Launcher was using over 600 MB of memory as well as leaking memory. My tablet is running like it's brand new again. I am unhappy about not being able to use it, but I'm a lot happier that I'm able to use my tablet again.

I kind of recall TFG taking antiquities and artwork when he was at an embassy in, I think it was France? It was super embarrassing for America but nothing ever came of it. I think he was there for a WWII memorial and didn't bother to even go, too busy swiping valuables. I kind of remember that they were replicas of American iconic artifacts.

I use the version on ninite.com. It was the last version before AOL bought it with murderous intent, so the developers put 666 at the end of the version number as a slight to them.

I have often said that the most intolerable offense in America is obstruction of profit, based on the sheer volume of litigation that fits that description.

Weaponization is such a limp argument. Law enforcement is the citizenry's weapon against corruption and crime. Claiming it is political is rubbish. As the attorney general of Michigan stated as she investigates the fake electors scheme in her state, the most political thing she could possibly do is not investigate. There's nothing political about doing the job you were hired to do. There was no need to push for investigation by elected officials on the Left, it was all plainly corrupt to even the most ordinary objective citizen. If anything, the right made investigations inevitable by brazening acting like nothing wrong happened, bragging about it, and then lying about it all, with erratic and contrary lies.

"Climate change" is obsolete, now it's "climate crisis". I suppose after that it's climate collapse and then climate desolation.

From my readings in the last few weeks, there does seem to be some sort of coordinated effort to control public messaging. There was/is a discussion about how the right wing is suing and chilling any and all efforts to expose and educate about disinformation. The lawsuits were so menacing that they even wanted to go after the students of the classes run by professors they were suing for teaching about present day disinformation in our society. It isn't just professors, it includes writers and journalists and groups that targeted disinformation. This is being done under the banner of 'bias'. Opposing, criticizing, or pushing back against far right wing messaging is attacked and sued as intolerable bias.

It's believed that this is to clear the way for a massive onslaught of disinformation and conspiracy theories entering into the 2024 election cycle. As far as what's happening to some social media sites, the timing is suspect. Reddit and Twitter were among the most effective at getting out the blue vote. Now they are in shambles.

Terrible article. It even leads with a photo to mock the idea.

The benefits of painting a home's roof with any white paint are enough to justify making it the standard. The article doesn't even mention that the super white paint can reduce indoor temperature by 8 or more degrees. That's a lot of energy not needed to cool the home. Even more effective is placing a second white roof above the roof on posts to shield it from solar heat. It would make sense to make a secondary roof solar panel ready. It would also extend the lifespan of the original roof.

"The paint's properties are almost superheroic. It can make surfaces as much as eight degrees Fahrenheit cooler than ambient air temperatures at midday, and up to 19 degrees cooler at night, reducing temperatures inside buildings and decreasing air-conditioning needs by as much as 40 percent.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/climate/white-paint-climate-cooling.html

The article sounds like a hit job to ridicule a simple and effective idea.

I'm not sure how I feel about bot seeding, but I suppose it's not necessarily out of bounds if it's a preliminary thing while Lemmy ramps up to a future major release.

That actually tracks, since lemmy is supposedly populated mostly by "older nerdy males". I mean they have a point, the quality of discussion is definitely better -- for now. That could end with an Endless September event.

There is a whole lot of desktop and laptop users who couldn't care less about APIs, but some of them have begun to notice that Reddit just isn't the same anymore.

Beehaw has a number of news and politics communities. As one might imagine, there's livelier debates and discussion and lots of new things to discuss almost every day.

I'm going to use the past tense here. Reddit was more than anything a news feed, at least originally. I suspect that their early days created a lot of momentum around politics, national and world news, since they are naturally bountiful sources of content.